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Rwandans take part in a vigil to mark the 30th anniversary of the Tutsi genocide, in Kigali, Rwanda, April 7 2024. Picture: Luke Dray/Getty Images
Your editorial opinion refers. (“Lessons from Rwanda’s 1994 genocide”, April 8). In what way did the world “enable” the internal genocide in an area where historically mutually hating tribes had been tied together by colonisers many generations earlier?
Was the West culpable by supplying the butchers with machetes? Or when Rwanda’s neighbours and the AU folded its arms and watched the slaughter build? What did Russia do about it? Or China, Somalia, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo?
Why should the West feel guilty? Will you also blame the West for the savagery playing out in Haiti? What would Business Day have the US or Cuba do?
Ryckard Blake Via BusinessLIVE
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LETTER: West is not to blame for Rwanda genocide
Your editorial opinion refers. (“Lessons from Rwanda’s 1994 genocide”, April 8). In what way did the world “enable” the internal genocide in an area where historically mutually hating tribes had been tied together by colonisers many generations earlier?
Was the West culpable by supplying the butchers with machetes? Or when Rwanda’s neighbours and the AU folded its arms and watched the slaughter build? What did Russia do about it? Or China, Somalia, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo?
Why should the West feel guilty? Will you also blame the West for the savagery playing out in Haiti? What would Business Day have the US or Cuba do?
Ryckard Blake
Via BusinessLIVE
JOIN THE DISCUSSION: Send us an email with your comments to letters@businesslive.co.za. Letters of more than 300 words will be edited for length. Anonymous correspondence will not be published. Writers should include a daytime telephone number.
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